HELP! Vagabond: Photo Contest

Vagabond Tours is having a photo contest for the best picture taken by a customer during their 2015 tours. You know I love a good contest, but I’m not exactly a professional photographer, and I’m having problems choosing which pictures to submit.

What’s the prize? The winner receives a vase from Dingle Crystal. While on our Driftwood tour in June, Mom and I got the chance to watch Sean Daly, Master Craftsman at Dingle Crystal, hand cut a few glasses, which was pretty impressive; you can see the awe in Mom’s face in the header picture above.

So what can you do? Help me choose which pictures I should enter into the contest! I’ve pulled together 20 of my best shots, but I need to narrow down the field to five. Take a look at the slideshow below, and let me know your favorites in the comments.

Are they looking for simply stunning, or stunning as well as not being the same thing that everyone else and their brother shot (i.e. Cliffs of Moher — that is an awesome pic, but doesn’t everyone get a shot like that when they are there)? All of these are really well composed, and I’m a sucker for animal pics, but I think 10, 13, 15 and 18 are beautiful while offering something a little different. I mean, seriously, did someone make that horse lay down for you RIGHT THERE in 13?? Can’t wait to see it all myself!

Yeah, that’s the dilemma. I’m looking at other people’s pics (which are at a lot of the same places) and thinking twice about what I have! That horse was hilarious. It was just fat and lazy and letting people walk up to it and take pictures. You should totally save your scavenger hunt picture for next year’s contest!! Thanks for looking!

Thanks for your help! I went with the ones that had the most votes…minus the ones that had similar pictures already submitted. I went with 8, 10, 13, 17 and 18. If anyone wants to check out the other photos (and like Mom’s photo…haha), check out Vagabond’s Facebook page. My pics are under “Visitor Posts” on the sidebar on the left, and many others are under the original competition post. Thanks everyone!! https://www.facebook.com/vagabondireland/

I know you’ve already submitted your chosen photos. However, I did actually pick 5 that I thought you should submit, prior to your doing so, but was on my phone and commenting seemed hard. So I was going to do it, later, on my computer. So… uh… later… my votes were 2, 4, 13, 15 and 17.